Arthur Allen

Arthur Allen was born in Cincinnati, educated at UC Berkeley, and began his career as a foreign correspondent for The Associated Press in Mexico and Central America. He later worked in Europe before moving to Washington, where he has written about science, medicine, and health for the past 20 years. He is currently an editor and reporter at Politico, where he writes about health and technology.

Since 1995, Allen has mainly written about biology and medicine. He became a freelance writer in 1996, writing articles for a variety of publications, including the Washington Post, the New York Times Magazine, the New Republic, Mother Jones, and Redbook. In 2007, his book Vaccine was published by W.W Norton. Additional books he has written include Ripe: The Search For The Perfect Tomato (2011) and The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl (2014). In 2014, Allen joined the Staff of Politico as an eHealth editor, writing and editing stories about heath IT. In March 2020, he left Politico and became an editor at Kaiser Health News.